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Chapter 36

#Chapter 36: Anatomy Ace

Nina

I had an anatomy exam the next day and after my shift with Tiffany I needed to get some studying done. It was nice and sunny out, which was a welcome relief after the weather being gloomy and rainy for the past couple of days, so I decided to find a spot to sit under a tree where there were few people.

A few minutes after I sat down in a spot a little ways out from campus in a quiet park, Luke showed up. He walked over to me and stood right in the way of the light.

“You’re blocking the sunlight,” I said, not looking up from my notebook.

“Oh. Sorry,” he said, stepping out of the way. He continued to stand there, just staring at me. I tried my best to ignore it in the hopes that he would just go away since I was not in a good mood

at all after seeing Enzo’s hickey, but he didn’t budge. Finally, I slammed down my pencil and glared up at him.

“If you’re gonna hang around, at least sit down or something,” I growled.

“Okay.” He immediately plopped down on the ground.

I couldn’t help but smirk a bit, amused

by his doglike obedience.

“What’s so funny?” he asked, cocking his head. As he did so, I could hear the faint rattle of his vertebrae clacking together.

“Nothing,” I replied, returning to my work. “You’re just… Do you have any thoughts of your own?”

Luke was silent for several moments

“Of course I do,”

said finally.

don’t you share them,

time. After about ten minutes, when I had become reabsorbed in my studying and thought for sure

you made a mistake

up suddenly and furrowed my brows.

where I had a diagram of a skull with notes scribbled on it. “Right there. You got your terms mixed up. It’s occipital bone, not parietal bone. The parietal

at my notes

he was

I

“Thanks,” I muttered.

No problem.

several more minutes. I became absorbed in my studying again, only to notice eventually that he was inching closer and closer

muttered, rubbing his

and looked up from my work again. “What is

not supporting

realized that Luke

do you know

at me,” Luke said, gesturing to himself. “I am a skeleton, after all. And besides, remember

up on things here and

have any other pointers you can give me, then? I really need

“Yes, actually…”

afternoon together under the tree while he helped me study. He was a surprisingly good anatomy tutor, even going so far as to show me where all of the bones were on his own skeleton. He was incredibly literal and couldn’t take a joke, but

end of our “tutoring”

gained two

anatomy, and a

friend.

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